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This was the last day before the Trump Presidencys 100th day. And congress put in less than half a day because there is no trump agenda item alive in congress right now. There is no bill moving anywhere in congress now. No legislative vehicle that is a trump agenda item. We have never seen a 99th day like this for a president. Every president s busiest legislative year is the first year. Its when their power of persuasion over the congress is at its highest. And it only goes down after that. What a president accomplishes in his first year is usually most of what the president will accomplish in his first term. This is so clear historically that when bob woodward chose to write a book entitled the agenda, he decided to focus entirely on a president s first year. And he picked a president with a loaded first year agenda, bill clinton. At this point in bill clintons first year, the congress was working overtime. At the same time, c ....
Looking back plaintively at when he thought it would be easier. it s so much easier to be presidential, because i don t have to use any energy. you know, being presidential is easy. much easier than what i have to do. you re going to have such great health care and a tiny fraction of the cost. and it s going to be so easy. the wall is peanuts. that s going to be one of the easy negotiations, believe me. we re going to make america great again. it s going to be easy. joining us now, nicholas kristof, pulitzer prize winning columnist for the new york times. charlie sykes, editor-in-chief of write wisconsin and an msnbc contributor. nick, the one contribution i had to campaign coverage when it would come to a trump speech or debate or something is to simply say that s not going to happen. get rid of nafta, that s not going to happen. coy rattle off all of the things that weren t going to happen. i did expect the big tax cut to happen. republican presidents get elected, they ....
Breaking news. donald trump has won the state of michigan. they go michigan? how did that happen. he goes on and on about it. you ve heard it all before. he was supposed to be telling them about how he dramatically to everyone s surprise pulled off a victory in getting obamacare repealed and replaced when everyone said he couldn t. but he doesn t have that story to tell. and so he tells his favorite story, the election night story. and now in interviews he is looking back plaintively at when he thought it would be easier. it s so much easier to be presidential, because i don t have to use any energy. you know, being presidential is easy. much easier than what i have to do. you re going to have such great health care and a tiny fraction of the cost. and it s going to be so easy. the wall is peanuts. that s going to be one of the easy negotiations, believe me. we re going to make america great again. it s going to be easy. joining us now, nicholas kristof, pulitzer prize wi ....